Quote Originally Posted by Maltz View Post
I tested the transparent version on a black background and they look terrible. So this is for a light-backgrounded forum only.
The darkest we have is NTW, and we won't be making anything darker than that due to issues with visibility of usernames. While the smilies don't look the best on NTW, they look fine on everything else and NTW already has some significant readability issues anyway. As such, I'm inclined to simply replace the existing white-background smilies with the transparent ones. I feel like making to versions, one white and one transparent, would be confusing.